ArtRage Events

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1. SaturdaySCREENINGS – EL NORTE (1983)

   In our land, we have no home… Here, we are not welcome. Directed by Gregory Nava Escaping a tyrannical Guatemalan political regime, Zaide Silvia Gutiérrez and David Villalpando, in their first film roles, are two indigenous youths who flee Guatemala in the early 1980s due…

2. SaturdaySCREENINGS – HARLAN COUNTY USA (1976)

   Directed by Barbara Koppel This documentary recounts a 1974 strike of Kentucky coal  mine workers.; a searing expose of the personal struggles of families mired in shocking poverty and  hazardous working conditions and exploited by mining companies. Oscar:  Best Documentary Oscar. Selected for the National…

3. SaturdaySCREENINGS – A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN (1945)

   Directed by Elia Kazan Dorothy McGuire, James Dunn, Joan Blondell, Lloyd Nolan, PeggyAnn Garner. The bright, imaginative  daughter of Irish immigrants comes of age in a Brooklyn tenement in the 1900s.  Kazan’s directorial debut., and a realistic,  heartfelt and nostalgic version of  the best selling…

4. SaturdaySCREENINGS – AMANDLA! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony (2003)

   Directed by Lee Hirsch One of the first documentaries on the South African struggle against apartheid. Interviews, archival footage, and mesmerizing performances highlight the unsung role of music in the battle for rights. “Remarkable and persuasive argument on behalf of music as a political weapon”…

5. SaturdaySCREENINGS – GRAPES OF WRATH (1940)

   Directed by John Ford With Henry Fonda and John Carradine Ford’s most famous epic drama depicting the plight of migrant farmers driven from their land by the dust bowl of the 1930s. Classic adaptation of John Steinbeck’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. “A triumph on both political…